page_title: 1988
section_title: March
hierarchical_section_title: 1988 / Deaths / March
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Jeanne Aubert (1900-1988), portrait en noir et blanc de 1926
context_page_description: 1988 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1988th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 988th year of the 2nd millennium, the 88th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1980s decade.
  1988 was a crucial year in the early history of the Internet—it was the year of the first well-known computer virus, the 1988 Internet worm. The first permanent intercontinental Internet link was made between the United States and Europe as well as the first Internet-based chat protocol, Internet Relay Chat. The concept of the World Wide Web was first discussed at CERN in 1988.
  The Soviet Union began its major deconstructing towards a mixed economy at the beginning of 1988 and began its gradual dissolution. The Iron Curtain began to disintegrate in 1988 as Hungary began allowing freer travel to the West. The first extrasolar planet, Gamma Cephei Ab was detected this year and the World Health Organization began its mission to eradicate polio.
  In the 20th century, the year 1988 has the most Roman numeral digits.
context_section_description: March 1 – Joe Besser, American actor and comedian (b. 1907)
  March 3 – Lois Wilson, American actress (b. 1894)
  March 5
  Alberto Olmedo, Argentine comedian and actor (b. 1933)
  Margaret Irving, American actress (b. 1898)
  March 6 – Jeanne Aubert, French singer and actress (b. 1900)
  March 7
  Divine, American singer and actor (b. 1945)
  Edmund Berkeley, American scientist (b. 1909)
  Robert Livingston, American film actor (b. 1904)
  March 8
  Werner Hartmann, German physicist (b. 1912)
  Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (b. 1918)
  Deane Janis, American singer (b. 1904)
  March 9 – Kurt Georg Kiesinger, German politician, 28th Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) (b. 1904)
  March 10
  Andy Gibb, English singer, songwriter, performer, and teen idol (b. 1958)
  Phạm Hùng, 3rd Prime Minister of Vietnam (b. 1912)
  Glenn Cunningham, American Olympic athlete (b. 1909)
  March 11
  Rashid Bakr, 10th Prime Minister of Sudan (b. 1930)
  Abdullahi Issa, Somalian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Somalia (b. 1922)
  March 12 – Karen Steele, American actress (b. 1931)
  March 13
  Olive Carey, American actress (b. 1896)
  John Holmes, American pornographic actor (b. 1944)
  March 16
  Erich Probst, Austrian football player (b. 1927)
  Dorothy Adams, American character actress (b. 1900)
  March 18
  Joan Field, American violinist (b. 1915)
  Frank Wayne, American game show producer and host (b. 1917)
  March 20 – Gil Evans, American jazz pianist (b. 1912)
  March 21 – Edd Roush, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1893)
  March 22 – Lester Rawlins, American stage and screen director (b. 1924)
  March 23 – Reg Lye, Australian actor (b. 1912)
  March 25 – Robert Joffrey, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1930)
  March 30 – Edgar Faure, French politician, 69th Prime Minister of France (b. 1908)
  March 31 – William McMahon, Australian politician, 20th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)
caption: Jeanne Aubert
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